Max Alyukov
@max-alyukov.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester. Political sociologist interested in media & political communication in autocracies.
New preprint is out! Since the day Russia invaded Ukraine, a Kremlin-linked Telegram channel, War on Fakes (WoF), has been mimicking fact-checking to discredit criticism of the regime. How does this propaganda strategy work? (1/9) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pleased to be one of the 2026–2027 Good Authority Fellows! GA, the successor to The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, brings political science to a broader audience. Expect a lot of writing from me there this year on authoritarian politics, propaganda, and disinformation.
Good Authority@goodauth.bsky.social · last mo.New voices join Good Authority in 2026! We welcome nine political scientists to our team of experts in our latest cohort of Good Authority fellows. Read their bios below and say hey in the comments! goodauthority.org/news/new-voi...
My paper 'Whose Fakes? Disinformation Awareness and Motivated Reasoning in Wartime Russia’ has won the Outstanding Early Career Paper Award from @iamcr.org's Political Communication Section! Grateful for the recognition. The paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Congratulations to Maxim Alyukov on the publication in Perspectives on Politics! The article examines how the Kremlin turned pseudo fact-checking into a propaganda strategy and how it affects citizens. It’s available here: doi.org/10.1017/S153....
“It’s Not That Simple, We Don’t Know the Whole Truth”: The Effects of Pseudo Fact Checking in Wartime Russia | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
“It’s Not That Simple, We Don’t Know the Whole Truth”: The Effects of Pseudo Fact Checking in Wartime Russia
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My new paper with Margarita Zavadskaya is out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! Since 2022, the Kremlin has turned pseudo fact checking into a key propaganda strategy. But how does it affect citizens? We run an experiment to answer this Q (10/): doi.org/10.1017/S153...
📢 My NEW ARTICLE in #IJPP: 2.3M domestic TV news episodes (2009–2019) in #Russia across 8 major networks + Interfax. NLP + Diff-in-Diff around the 2016 RBC TV takeover to estimate shifts in #Ukraine -focused news. Free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New preprint is out! Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7
